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“movements based on racism and discriminatory ideas, in particular the Zionist movement, which is based on racial superiority”. [As in "G_d's chosen people," you mean?]
BBC NEWS | World | Americas | US may boycott racism conference
Young maker Max Wallack designed this system for using plastic, wire, and packing peanuts to construct a shelter for homeless people and disaster victims, and he won a hefty design prize for it.
100 rooms, each 100 square feet.
teenagers who receive pressure from their peers or others to turn down the volume of their iPods instead turn them up higher. [You kids get off my lawn!]
they are relatives of bacteria that live in the subglacial lakes of Antarctica. Others are functionally similar to the extremophile bacteria living on the black smokers
Found in such exotic locales as Kenya, Mexico, Canada, Australia, China and in similarly off-the-beaten path locations as California, Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, and especially Washington state, the mounds first appear to be just that: mounds of earth.
At the moment, no one knows when the next super solar storm will erupt. It could be 100 years away or just 100 days.
Trevor Blake: St. John’s Bridge. 14 February 2009.
the social sciences are at the threshold of a fundamental shift not only in our understanding of the social and behavioral sciences, but also the ways in which we study them. [Fails to explain in what way these claims are true or testable, thus not science.]
Video Game Everquest 2 Provides New Way To Study Human Behavior
A man whose bravery and fame is matched only by his commitment to truth
What will become of the Baron? Surely this time he will not escape. | MetaFilter
FPV (First Person View) R/C flying
Soundflower is a Mac OS X (10.2 and later) system extension that allows applications to pass audio to other applications.
Cardboard furniture
collapsible cardboard stool
In August, Sam self-recorded a fifteen song four-track album, created in and named after his SE Belmont apartment building, “Murray Manor”. He held a rollicking CD-release show at Sound Grounds, the coffee shop across the street, on November 17.
You got that? The” truly unforgivable mistake” the Chinese authorities made at Tiananmen was not the brutal massacre of peaceful pro-democracy demonstrators, but rather “the failure to intervene on a timely basis to nip the demonstrations in the bud.”
Hit & Run > Chas Freeman: The ChiComs Were “Overly Cautious” at Tiananmen Square – Reason Magazine
